The so-called Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) will start small a single sixth-grade class lodged temporarily inside an existing public school in Brooklyn.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: War of Ideas on the homefront

In this space last week, we reported that a sixth-grade class dubbed the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), is supposed to begin teaching students in September inside a New York public school.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Good news, bad news

Perhaps the most remarkable detail about the March 3 conclave was the leading role taken in it by Debbie Almontaser, a New York resident who last attracted attention as the front-person for a middle-and-high magnet school to be established in New York, the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: CAIR vs. the NYPD

As long as those responsible for New York's public schools decline to answer legitimate questions about the nature and sources of the incipient Khalil Gibran academy's program, they will inflame concerns about the potential for Islamists' pedagogic abuse of the students and fiscal abuse of the taxpayers under the guise of the sort of "multiculturalism" now beginning, properly, to be rejected elsewhere.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Good news, bad news